I mentioned in my last post how I got here, and why I was so sleep deprived. What I forgot to mention was my sneaking tendency toward a caffein addiction by PitMad day, but that is beside the point. PitMad was upon me. If there was ever a day to justify caffein and chocolate consumption, […]
Toward the end of 2020, my book club read the book You Are a Bada** by Jen Sincero. If you’ve read another one of my posts and seen reference to this, my apologies. I have since been a little obsessed with a lot of the concepts she preaches. I’ll also take this moment to apologize to […]
You’ve heard the famous line from the end of the poem, “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” by Clement Clarke Moore. (Side note: did you know it as called that? Me neither! You may know it as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.”) Those jolly words are spoken by Santa, having just worked his magic on a […]
It’s been a whirlwind of emotions over here at the Arizona State University College Football house of obsessive fandom. First, we got this nugget of soul-sucking news: …to which I responded with the following melodramatic yet accurate deep-dive into my soul: I hate college football. I hate all sports, but college football is the worst. […]
I started listening to country music when I first heard of Taylor Swift. “Teardrops on My Guitar” really resonated with my teenage heartbreak, and the fact that I was definitely not going to get over my first high school boyfriend. Or my second. Or my third. What if this love was my one and only […]
It was the day after the last day of second year of residency. The last 365 days had been jam packed with intense learning for Rhett. We took a long drive as a family to reconnect and give our brains a break. It soon became apparent that this brain break was much needed. As people […]
The date was June 27th, 2020. Dustin was at the end of his 2nd year of orthopedic surgery residency training at a hospital in beautiful Southern California. His city was known for its elite status as a “Blue Zone,” a testament to the overall health of its occupants. Second year of orthopedic training is notoriously […]
